Merged: The Movies Thread

[itvnetop]

Cult, please enlighten us with your insight into the MPAA's rating system.

[CultBrennan59]

Me reading this thread right now..

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[Chico23231]

I heard nothing but bad reviews on Superman. I hatte comic book movies and I dont get the whole appeal outside of kids. Ill take an excellent, original story over special effects/cgi all day long.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

I heard nothing but bad reviews on Superman. I hatte comic book movies and I dont get the whole appeal outside of kids. Ill take an excellent, original story over special effects/cgi all day long.

I am starting to agree with you I am kind of burnt on the whole super hero film stuff.

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

I heard nothing but bad reviews on Superman. I hatte comic book movies and I dont get the whole appeal outside of kids. Ill take an excellent, original story over special effects/cgi all day long.

Thats why you should check out "This is the End."

Its a great flick and one of the few movies that I've laughed all the way through from beginning to end. The last movies I can think of that made me laugh like that was the 40 year old Virgin, Hangover and Super Bad. A must see in my opinion, and I'd rather see it again than see Superman for the first time (although I will see superman in theaters for its special effects)

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

Thats why you should check out "This is the End."

Its a great flick and one of the few movies that I've laughed all the way through from beginning to end. The last movies I can think of that made me laugh like that was the 40 year old Virgin, Hangover and Super Bad. A must see in my opinion, and I'd rather see it again than see Superman for the first time (although I will see superman in theaters for its special effects)

Yeah I like comedies and heard This is the End is good. Im def gonna see it.

My favorite movies of the last year 1. Flight 2. Zero Dark Thirty 3. Silver Linings Playblook

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Yeah I like comedies and heard This is the End is good. Im def gonna see it.

My favorite movies of the last year 1. Flight 2. Zero Dark Thirty 3. Silver Linings Playblook

I've heard mixed (Superman-like reviews) for Flight: Either very good or not good at all.

Silver Linings Playbook was good, nothing Great.

Zero Dark Thirty I loved.

So far the movies I saw this year in order of best to worst:

1. This is the End
2. Hangover III (it was better than the 2nd!)
3. Iron Man 3 (I'm like you, too many superhero movies, too predictable now. And the villian sucked. This was the worst Iron Man IMO)

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

I've heard mixed (Superman-like reviews) for Flight: Either very good or not good at all.

Silver Linings Playbook was good, nothing Great.

Zero Dark Thirty I loved.

So far the movies I saw this year in order of best to worst:

1. This is the End
2. Hangover III (it was better than the 2nd!)
3. Iron Man 3 (I'm like you, too many superhero movies, too predictable now. And the villian sucked. This was the worst Iron Man IMO)

Flight is a must see. Original story and a lil unpredictable. Densel, Goodman were great.

Silver Linings for me was all the about the message and superior acting. Lawrence shows why she is going to become the best actress on the planet shortly. De Niro is the De Niro of old and steals scenes from Cooper the entire movie.

[mredskins]

Kind of a sleeper is Last Stand with Arnold. I drank a few beers while watching it and generally enjoyed it.

[MTK]

Amazing they can't make a good Superman movie these days.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Amazing they can't make a good Superman movie these days.

You didn't like Man of Steel?

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Amazing they can't make a good Superman movie these days.

Its funny, because the whole time I was watching the movie last night, I was thinking of this quote you said.

Folks, if you haven't seen Superman, just wait. Wait for it to come to HBO, Redbox or Netflix. It was bad. There was absolutely no direction in this long 2 1/2 hour flick. Just when the movie seemed like it was going to go somewhere and be good, it quickly changed direction and got bad again.

And then its like Amy Adams character (Lois Lane) its like she just appears and is like 'Hey I'm Lois Lane' and now I'm going to basically turn into the main character for the rest of the movie. Superman himself didn't speak that much (or seem like he was on camera that much). The whole Krypton planet scenes were just dumb, and took up a good portion of the movie. The movie had a lot of flashbacks to when Clark was a kid and how he couldn't use his powers, but they felt like they had to remind the audience that 10 times.

This wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen. But its definitely up there in terms of worst comic book movies. Spiderman 3, Green Lantern, and Captain America are all pretty bad IMO, but Spiderman 3 and Captain America may actually be better than this one. Hell, the more I think about it, the Superman they made back in '05 may have actually been better than this one.

3.5/10

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

Its funny, because the whole time I was watching the movie last night, I was thinking of this quote you said.

Folks, if you haven't seen Superman, just wait. Wait for it to come to HBO, Redbox or Netflix. It was bad. There was absolutely no direction in this long 2 1/2 hour flick. Just when the movie seemed like it was going to go somewhere and be good, it quickly changed direction and got bad again.

And then its like Amy Adams character (Lois Lane) its like she just appears and is like 'Hey I'm Lois Lane' and now I'm going to basically turn into the main character for the rest of the movie. Superman himself didn't speak that much (or seem like he was on camera that much). The whole Krypton planet scenes were just dumb, and took up a good portion of the movie. The movie had a lot of flashbacks to when Clark was a kid and how he couldn't use his powers, but they felt like they had to remind the audience that 10 times.

This wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen. But its definitely up there in terms of worst comic book movies. Spiderman 3, Green Lantern, and Captain America are all pretty bad IMO, but Spiderman 3 and Captain America may actually be better than this one. Hell, the more I think about it, the Superman they made back in '05 may have actually been better than this one.

3.5/10

Maybe society no longer wants the goodie good super hero anymore. Today's society enjoys a Batman who has a edge to him.

The other thing with Superman is his enemies suck; boring as shit.

I hate to say it but the Superman genre may just be dead.

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Maybe society no longer wants the goodie good super hero anymore. Today's society enjoys a Batman who has a edge to him.

The other thing with Superman is his enemies suck; boring as shit.

I hate to say it but the Superman genre may just be dead.

Thats a major reason why people are going to like Batman over Superman. Superman is the 'roll your eyes, common superhero'. By that I mean that he is an alien, thats how he is a super hero. There is no good reason or excuse as to why he has powers. Whereas Batman its different, because he is super rich and got trained by a league of ninja's in the Himalayas. That's more believable and more likely to happen than an alien from another galaxy coming to earth with Super powers.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

Thats a major reason why people are going to like Batman over Superman. Superman is the 'roll your eyes, common superhero'. By that I mean that he is an alien, thats how he is a super hero. There is no good reason or excuse as to why he has powers. Whereas Batman its different, because he is super rich and got trained by a league of ninja's in the Himalayas. That's more believable and more likely to happen than an alien from another galaxy coming to earth with Super powers.

I think the villains come into play as well. As Batman has some of the best and well Superman have some of the worst if not the worst.